英语词汇“alchemy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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If your favorite but perpetually losing team picks up a couple of new players and the result is suddenly an unbeatable combo, that's alchemy — any seemingly magical act involving the combining of elements into something new.

In medieval times alchemy meant the mysterious science of trying to convert one form of matter into another using fire, potions, spells, and all kind of other tricks. Alchemists often got a bad rap for their obsession with trying to turn base metals into gold, but in fact true alchemy was concerned with a far loftier ideal — that of finding a "universal elixir" that could overcome death.

WORD FAMILY

alchemy: alchemic, alchemical, alchemies, alchemise, alchemist, alchemize+/alchemise: alchemised, alchemising/alchemist: alchemistic, alchemistical, alchemists/alchemize: alchemized, alchemizes, alchemizing

USAGE EXAMPLES

Great recipes are kind of like instruction manuals for alchemy, showing us how to transform ordinary, often banal, taken-for-granted ingredients into extraordinary dishes.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016)

But even if that isn’t the case, it is revealing of the limits to China’s financial alchemy.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016)

But Jukin’s existence performs a strange sort of alchemy, retroactively transforming these pratfalls into some kind of labor.

New York Times(Dec 27, 2016)

n a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times

Hyper

pseudoscience

an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions

n the way two individuals relate to each other

a mysterious alchemy brought them together

Syn|Hyper

chemistry, interpersonal chemistry

social relation

a relation between living organisms (especially between people)

单词	alchemy
释义	alchemy (once / 2083 pages) 1n 2n If your favorite but perpetually losing team picks up a couple of new players and the result is suddenly an unbeatable combo, that's alchemy — any seemingly magical act involving the combining of elements into something new. In medieval times alchemy meant the mysterious science of trying to convert one form of matter into another using fire, potions, spells, and all kind of other tricks. Alchemists often got a bad rap for their obsession with trying to turn base metals into gold, but in fact true alchemy was concerned with a far loftier ideal — that of finding a "universal elixir" that could overcome death. WORD FAMILY alchemy: alchemic, alchemical, alchemies, alchemise, alchemist, alchemize+/alchemise: alchemised, alchemising/alchemist: alchemistic, alchemistical, alchemists/alchemize: alchemized, alchemizes, alchemizing USAGE EXAMPLES Great recipes are kind of like instruction manuals for alchemy, showing us how to transform ordinary, often banal, taken-for-granted ingredients into extraordinary dishes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) But even if that isn’t the case, it is revealing of the limits to China’s financial alchemy. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) But Jukin’s existence performs a strange sort of alchemy, retroactively transforming these pratfalls into some kind of labor. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1 n a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times Hyper pseudoscience an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions 2 n the way two individuals relate to each other a mysterious alchemy brought them together Syn\|Hyper chemistry, interpersonal chemistry social relation a relation between living organisms (especially between people)
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